Improved bag-holder and truck combined



HI AI Bag Holder and Truck. No. 89,077. Patented April 20, 1869.

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Letters Patent N0. 89,07 7, dated April 20, 1869.

To all whom it ma/y concern.-

Be it known that I, HIRAM A. REID, of Beaver Dam, in the county of Dodge, in the State of WVisconsin, have invented ainew and improved Bag-Holder and Truck combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toithe letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective and detail view of the ma chine in position as a bag-holder.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the machine in position as a truck.

The object of this invention is to hold a bag open, and at any convenient height for filling, by the same machine with which it may then be truudled wherever desired.

To enableothers skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Similar letters of. reference indicate like parts.

A is the platform on which the bag stands,

B is a stem, or post, firmly mortised into the back end of the platform, and further strengthened by side braces O C. The stem B is also bifurcated at thetop, (or the side braces may be projected above it, to attain the same object,-) and provided with a cross-pin, M.

D1) are the truck-wheels.

E E are arms, hinged or pivoted on the stem B, as indicated at H.

. F Fare spreaders, projecting up and forward between the arms E E, with their top ends turned outward, and supported in place by the doubled rod K, passing through the arms E E, and through mortises in the sprcaders; they are held apart by the coiled spring I, on the upper reach of the doubled rod K.

G is a curved ratch, hinged or pivoted, asindicated at N, and catching on the cross-pin M.

The Spreaders F F and the ratch G, may be made of hard wood, or of metal.

The machine is used and operated thus-- The arms E E are let down till the last tooth, or notchof the rateh G catches on the cross-pin M. The bag is set on the platform A, and its mouth folded over the ends of the arms E E, (the bag hangiug between them,) and then also over the heads of the spreaders F F, and by the action of the spring I against the spreaders, the mouth of the bag will be held open.

As the bag is filled, it can be raised up from time to time, by lifting the 'arms E E, until another tooth of the ratch G catches on the pin M, and so on, until the bag is entirely full.

The mouth of the bag 'is then slipped off from the spreaders and arms, ready for tying, and the arms E E being thrown up to aperpendicular position, the hook L catches tightover the pin'M, and the machine is ready for use as a truck.

The arms E E now serve for truck-handles, and the ratch G serves for a leg or standard, as indicated in Having thus described the construction and operation of my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentt In combination with the handles E E, spreaders FF, supported in place by a single or double rod, K, and held apart by a coiled spring, I, or its equivalent, a curved ratch G, pivotedor hinged in the handlesE E, to engage on pin M,all arranged to operate with the truck, substantially as herein set forth.

HIRAM'A. REID.

Witnesses:

JosnPH S. SHAW, N. E. ALLEN. 

